This Week in Spring - November 5th, 2024

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's the 5th of November, 2024, and, um, I - an American - am desperately trying to keep calm and carry on. I did everything I can do (VOTE!), and so it's with considerable enthusiasm that I dive into this week's (hopefully distracting) roundup!

• Dr. David Syer announcing the Spring GRPC project
• a Spring Boot and GraalVM native image application, demonstrated by awesome Oracle GraalVM developer advocate Alina Yurenko
• understanding the Spring Boot @SpringBootApplication annotation
• understanding the lifecycle of a Spring Boot application
• there's never been a better time to be a Java and Spring developer!
• A New Developer's Journey, in 2024
• Super cool! Java 24 is targeting a fix to allow developers to synchronize code on virtual threads and avoid pinning
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Hi, Spring fans! How're things? It's almost Halloween! I'm so excited! I'm going as a PHP program. Boooooooo...t. I'm writing this from the amazing Vaadin Create conference in Frankfurt, Germany, about to do my keynote for an amazing, Spring-loving audience here. So, without further ado, let's dive right into it!

• RestClient support for OAuth 2 in Spring Security 6.4
• Spring Modulith 1.3 RC1, 1.2.5, and 1.1.10 released. The RC has several cool new contributions, including one from my friend and teammate Cora Iberkleid introducing an archiving event publication completionm mode; and one contribution from me, that supports externalizing events with Spring Integration MessageChannels. Nice! Get the bits now!
• An awesome blog from Marcin Grzejszczak: Let's Use OpenTelemetry with Spring
• Spring Boot 3.4.0 RC1 is available now
• in last week's A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to GraalVM benevolent dictator …

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to GraalVM founder and benevolent dictator for life Thomas Wuerthinger, recorded live from Devoxx Belgium 2024!

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring. I write this to you in an Uber speeding down the autobahn near Frankfurt, Germany. What a time to be alive! At the rate this driver's going, I won't have much time to write this before we've arrived, so let's dive right into it!

• Another banger from Spring AI teammate and community member Thomas Vitale called: Leverage the Power of 45k, free, Hugging Face models with Spring AI and Ollama
• Spring for Apache Pulsar 1.2.0-RC1 is now available
• Spring for Apache Pulsar 1.0.11 and 1.1.5 are now available
• Spring Security 6.4.0-RC1 is available now
• Spring Security 6.3.4, 6.2.7 and 5.8.15 are available now
• Spring REST Docs 3.0.2 is now available
• Spring Data 2024.1.0 goes RC1
• Spring Data 2024.0.5 and 2023.1.11 released
• Spring Tools 4.26.0 released
• Spring Framework CVE-2024-38819 and CVE-2024-38820 published
• …

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to Oracle developer advocate Andres Almiray about the latest-and-greatest in the amazing Oracle database. #Oracle #SQL #Java #JConf

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another rip-roaring and ever-so-riveting installment of This Week in Spring! I'm in Amsterdam, at the moment, rounding out a week between Antwerp, Beglium, and Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Today I'm off to Dubai for the fantastic GITEX/DevSlam event. Then I return back to Europe for Voxxed Days Thessaloniki, in Greece. Should be a fun week!

It's certainly been a fun week! Let's dive right into it!

• Spring AI 1.0.0. M3 has been released
• In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talk to New York Java SIG chair and founder Frank Greco about community, AI, and more
• Spring Cloud 2024.0.0.-M2 (aka Moorgate) has been released
• Spring Batch 5.2.0 M2 is available now
• Oded Shopen, friend of Spring, has updated the distributed microservices implementation of Petclinic to feature a Spring Ai assistant
• Spring Framework committer Sebastien Deleuze was part of this Devoxx Belgium talk looking at Project Leyden, along with Per Minborg, and it's quite amazing what's possible
• Have you checked out …

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I talk to New York Java SIG chair and founder Frank Greco about AI, safety, Java, community, and more!

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm in Antwerp, Belgium, for the amazing Devoxx Belgium 2024 event! I am so happy to be back here, one of the best shows in the Java ecosystem!

We've got a lot to get into so let's dive right in!

• From Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.11.x to 3.0
• Supercharging your AI Applications with Spring AI Advisors
• mvn clean install or mvn verify
• the new informational JEP: 14
• authoring webcomponents in a Spring Boot Thymeleaf project
• "...After evaluating various options, we have decided to tentatively migrate Spring Framework 7 to JSpecify annotations and deprecate Spring null-safety annotations" - woohoo!
• Did we mention that JTE is on the Spring Initializr?
• What is this blasphemy? Who would want to change the Spring Boot banner? - this article is an example of what never to do!
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Hi, Spring fans! it's the first of October! We're officially in the fourth quarter of 2024! Time's moving too quickly. Way too quickly. But as always, there's awesome stuff afoot, so let's dive right in!

• Spring Framework lead Juergen Hoeller looks at the road ahead, to Spring Framework 6.2 and Spring Framework 7.0
• In this first installment, Oded Shopin looks at integrating Spring AI into the famous Spring Petclinic application
• Oded Shopin continues his effort in this second part
• Spring director Michael Minella looks at the extension of Spring Boot 2.7's support timeline
• In this installment of the podcast, I talk to Oracle Java Developer Advocate Billy Korando, looking at Java 23, Structured Concurrency, and more
• Want to be a good public speaker? …

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to Java Developer advocate at Oracle, Billy Korando, about the amazing new features in Java 23 and beyond!